and also plane crash claims another fatality five people have now died after a passenger jet their own slammed into a busy highway approach shooting the wrong way three survivors from a the critical condition. and i witness describes see how he helped rescue a wounded woman from the crushed airliner as he drove past that accident scene. didn't look at the weeks of the main news president putin signs into law by the americans adopting russian children but it's dividing public opinion here in russia even though the authorities insist in saying that the flawed adoption system in the u.s. . and egypt's new constitution which sparked weeks of protests is officially adopted but matters a far from settled with opposition leaders now under investigation for allegedly

plotting to topple the islamist president. i'm kevin zero in thanks for being with us you're watching a roundup of the big stories of the last seven days here on r.t. and first the very sad story on russian soil the news that five people have now died as a result of a plane crash when a passenger jet overshot the runway one of russia's busiest airports one of the wounded flight attendants died of her injuries in hospital on sunday the to pull off to a four airliner crash through a fence into the side of a major highway breaking into three parts as it did or eight people on board the crew members now this crash happened just ten kilometers from the center of the city this in fact is video taken by a motorist dashboard camera captures the very moment.

were of course for the people on the highway at the time a hugely lucky escape but an instant which clearly left the shop the driver could be heard on the video breathing deeply as he tries to pull over following on from what they all just witnessed. earlier my colleague carrie johnson talked to a witness who stopped his car and got out to help the injured including the flight attendant who since died in hospital explain to us how he found there and shared some of the dramatic video of the shot. you're with with us i was the first to get there i saw the flight attendant asking for help to get the other flight attendant out so we had to go inside the plane just me and a few other volunteers. we followed the blood trail looking for her and finally found her further down the cabin we carried her out and tried to get through to the highway she had some very bad things shell and head injuries and both the legs were broken arise were hurting from the jet fuel that had come out but she was in

a really bad shape but still conscious about it why did she say nothing at all. she kept saying that your eyes and legs were hurting and i was asking to be put on the ground she was in a shock and disoriented there were only four or five people who volunteered to help secure that with me others were too scared to go near the planes as the engine was in fire and they couldn't put it out for twenty minutes so we were the only ones to give some help. those who mention the crashes now then claimed the lives of five people on board the plane the other three are still in a critical condition now investigators are trying to fathom why the top of two of four careered off the end of the runway it's a relatively new type of aircraft which had never before been involved in a deadly crash. outlines how the tragedy happened step by step. the twenty ninth of the summer the last working day of two thousand and twelve in russia. business is closed offices put off until the next year families friends

employees jump into their cars and escape the busy capital he's got highway heads to the west a region where most of the luxury states and country houses are located traffic jams are common with a song with a die in this song over the year but one of the law of the road is almost empty. passengers come out of the car to see what the sound was a big stack to see anything but not this. just minutes before that at two can have to call for flight number ninety six and it begins landing of them looking at the first time that is unsuccessful the plane makes a wrong over the airport and begins the sending for a second time and based on the plane touches down but can stall the experience true

at that moment very slightly knows already they will not make it the jets reaches the end of the runway rams into the fans but still continues moving and it finally stops after overrunning the asteroid by four hundred meters the plane breaks into three parts of tail is lying over there in the holy of the road people can easily see it's number or a six four zero four seven the middle part just fall of meters away the cockpit already partially damaged after the crash with the friends fall right at the edge of the highway it's a miracle indeed the road design care at that time this is a ten lane highway the wreckage is only on one of the lanes of traffic continues on at least three here even after the tragedy there is sassing vizsla gone to see what happened they notice and then playing with my on the road the very road they usually drive every friday and everybody thinks at that moment what's eve i would

have come minutes earlier or was eve i would have been on that airplane people come out of their cars and try to help out. in the cockpit however the exact. weather conditions technical failure and pilot error are among the investigators main causes of the userland but most likely a combination of reasons behind a fatal crash however a plane he chain a busy highway in one of europe's biggest cities could have left a much more devastating trail of destruction. more pictures now with us accounts from the scene on our website we can also find more about the plane itself all the details that r.t. dot com. from new year's day the adoption of russian children by u.s. citizens will no longer be possible after president putin signed the measure into law that said to response to american sanctions against russian officials which it sees as human rights violators artie's

a regular as more on the diplomatic spat. you have to understand that the law the so-called dental magnitsky law actually deals primarily a with the employees in travel and financial strictures on the number of american officials and persons who have committed crimes against russian citizens and only part of the law actually bans the adoption of russian children a by american citizens it has been in part inspired by the case of a russian toddler who was adopted by the american family in two thousand and nine and died in their custody several months later after his father left him in a locked in the car in the blistering heat for nine hours the russian lawmakers feel that the american mall system does not provide adequate adequate protection for the russian kids and also does not punish those responsible for the deaths of russian kids for example do you think of his father adoptive father walked away with a fine aside from this new law russian lawmakers are also pledging to improve the

lives of the orphans and also improve foster care situation in russia but this new particular law is seen as a response to the so-called magnitsky act which was adopted in the united states just a couple of weeks ago. which entails a list of russian officials whom the united states believed to be involved in the case. russian lawyer who was charged with tax evasion put in preliminary confinement and then died while in custody now siggy magnus his family friends and several few unwise organizations believe the charges against one of these two were trumped up and that he died in custody for. these two acts are seen as the latest developments in the ongoing a tit for tat split diplomatic battle which seems to be going on despite the a reset button pushed several years ago russian studies in history professor steven cohen from new york and princeton university says he's never been under any illusions and so for russia u.s. relations. there's an old russian saying words are also deeds

a lot of people in moscow and washington may pass the magnitsky act and now the ban on adoption in moscow may have thought they were just talking showing off playing grandstand politically as we say in america but these words have consequences they have bet very few all this new cold war atmosphere which is enveloping the relationship between our two countries it's going to affect american relations with russia regarding afghanistan regarding missile defense regarding syria regarding iran these are very serious matters obama has continued the policy toward moscow begun by president clinton a democrat and continued by president bush a republican that policy is advancing nato toward russia's borders building missile defense on russia's borders interfering in russia's interest politics most recently the street demonstrations this is the same policy with again twenty years ago with

the soviet union. were reporting since neither iran's rolling out the big guns in the persian gulf to ron's undertaking massive navy drills in the strategic strait of hormuz to show the world what it's got if trouble comes a knockin we talk about that after the break. so how much does it take to get into russian politics how many hours of hard work and how many patriotic deeds does it take to become one of the people who make the decisions and the world's largest country well i'll tell you how much it takes exactly seven point five million euros russia's federal investigative committee has a stablished that allegedly hey of constantine should show from faire russia and the commies prospectively promised for a. he to get

a businessman on to their party's electoral lists getting him a spot in the lower house of the duma the investigators have forwarded the state duma an official request to strip the two m.p.'s of their parliamentary immunity and you're darn right they better street have their parliamentary immunity stripped i mean what's worse than government corruption some people in the government being so corrupt they can actually sell the government itself to someone for a fee so positions in parliament corruption on this high of a level needs to be punished severely breaking rocks in siberia or worse sounds pretty good to me tolerating flagrant corruption does not a great civilization make but that's just my opinion.

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choose me access to often. more news today violence is once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. well again egypt's president morsi has made an attempt to ease political tensions in the country calling on the opposition to engage in dialogue but his offer was met with skepticism since it came shortly after the launch of an investigation into his three top opponents the chief prosecutor citing allegations that opposition

leaders including nobel prize winner mohamed el baradei incited their supporters to topple morsi earlier this week too it was announced the divisive new constitution is approved over sixty percent of egyptians in the two states referendum the opposition though claims the islamist draft a document in stride and sharia law it only got a yes vote because of fraud clerks the world affairs contributor for britain's guardian newspaper he explained why morsi doesn't feel secure even after winning the referendum. i think he was just sort of deflect attention from the economy because the underlying problem paint the biggest we're facing egypt is the economic crisis one of four egyptians are without jobs poverty is on the rise and the subsidies on fuel which means that the prices of gas and city are going to rocket and so this is a kind of a sort of smokescreen for him and he was very keen to get the opposition tied up in these the legal challenges to it to sort of stop them from focusing on opposing him on the issues where he's very weak and i think also he be worried that you know

a sizable minority thirty six over thirty six percent of people voted against the constitution and the fact seems to be that that he said is on the way. and i think that obviously you know i think we can see more protests in the new year. well talking of the new year while the so-called fiscal cliff deadline hangs heavy the still no deal inside between the firmly entrenched republicans and democrats well as americans start to see their taxes go up dramatically on new year's day but the sticking point holding up negotiations on the rates for the rich let's get more analysis on the issue which could put the entire global recovery of state let's face it we'll go live to china graph that he's found the wide awake news get his opinion hi there charlie i want to kind of think i mean everyone say this but they could have seen it coming two years in the making this is big with democrats and republicans still in disagreement in the face of this looming year end fiscal cliff where do you think america's heading. where i think i think the path is is very very clear i mean you have to do is look at europe look what happened in greece

look what's happened in italy where it's been you know shown to the people of that region of the world as it's being shown to us this notion that representative government doesn't work no i don't believe that but i believe this is the message they're sending to worse you know that we have five hundred thirty five member body of congress and they just can't get anything done and as you alluded to you know it was nearly two years ago when congress said if the super congress the super committee can't come up with the deal to reduce our spinning and increase our revenue we'll have this fiscal cliff so you're right on the money thing it's been these wouldn't these promises that were made two years ago basically could never stand up we are always heading towards this problem you know one hundred percent correct look this is work in the united states of america this is where we govern by crisis we don't have representatives in washington d.c. we have political prostitutes that will go before a camera and say that anything that they have to say is to keep this massive

government rolling and you can make social interest influence in washington d.c. or that i do is a realignment of brinkmanship as well going on here between the two sides. oh yes definitely i mean you know when the cameras are on you know if they're on the red team they're going out they're saying it's the welfare folks as well it's the people on food stamps or the people in extended unemployment benefits if they're on the blue team they're coming out and trying to get their base fired up that it's all about their corporate interests and that this is why we can't come up with you but is an enemy when the cameras are off and it's time to pass a trillion dollar nearly trillion dollar defense bill they have no problem whatsoever coming to coming together and holding hands or put that kind of a deal together. that true well listen the fiscal cliff that is triggered massive made it's all playing into the cards isn't there saying americans feel like the lawmakers are playing games in congress what does it say about how much people trust the government. you know and i think rightly so the people who are awake and

paying attention have absolutely no faith in government and it isn't because representative government doesn't work it but this is a prime example of what happens when you have collusion between financial special interests and your so-called representatives like i said they don't represent the people these are political prostitutes they represent special interest only but this isn't a widespread effect because all prices soaring european markets edging higher so is that responsible is it. no no it's not responsible but again why would this be any different look since two thousand and one namely we've been governing this nation by proxy the world by crisis and it doesn't matter who gets or who's good who gets left by the wayside as long as a special interest is served you know just just one quick note i mean an example of how far we've come in the year two thousand it was twelve years ago when the dow jones went to ten thousand points we had seventeen million people in this nation on food stamps now with all these trillions of dollars have been spent you know the deals that were made to bail out banks and do work have special interest written

stimulus packages we've managed to bring the dow jones from ten thousand to thirteen thousand but our national debt has went from five trillion to push in seventeen trillion dollars and the number of people on the modern day bread line from seventeen million in the year two thousand to nearly fifteen million now so after the new year. dusted what's your prognosis for the next week in fifteen seconds if you can you got it that's a great question i think ultimately the hammer is going to fall on the people of this country it is called austerity nobody in washington d.c. wants to own up to that austerity but eventually it's coming to this country charlie mcgrath founder of what a way spent on the program and you know next we invite you to let your imagination run wild if this is your bag the animated blockbusters like wall-e. and ratatouille did he set himself a target of creating a new cd player every day of the year to do that in america see some of his creations website and also said hey somebody another day another scandal there's

twelve million euros goes missing from greece's tourist industry just when the country needs it most again reporting on who's to blame to go. to. the end of the year. iran's boom up a massive naval drills held in the straits of hormuz one of the world's biggest oil shipping routes as it is warships submarines and jet fighters are taking part with the aim of proving to run is well equipped to defend its maritime borders the maneuvers come as the west builds up pressure over iran's nuclear program piling on sanctions against the country to round want a few months ago that it could indeed block the strait if it wanted to but now its navy commanders say that's not on the agenda professor mohammad marandi from tehran university explained why the iranians don't think now this danger of military

confrontation in the near future. in the sense that western countries are brutal and civilized enough to carry out an attack i think that that's clear to run into the fact that western countries are imposing sanctions and cargo on on iran they're trying to prevent iran from even importing and exporting medicine and food stuff by blocking the central bank and there are shortages of some medicines right now in iran and people die so the fact that western countries are willing to kill ordinary people and to make people suffer i think makes it clear that. i deal of carrying out an attack on iran is something that they would contemplate a big code but i think on the other hand the iranians believe that western countries are much weaker today than they ever were before the defeat in iraq and afghanistan than setbacks in. that israel had in lebanon in gaza make as well the economic crisis in europe in north america make it highly unlikely but the

iranians have prepared themselves and i think that it has been a to turn to war so the i think in general the iranians feel that a military assault on iran aggression would be highly unlikely well news in brief now and gunfire during a game of protests near the west in the iraqi city of ramadi is left to people would be bodyguards for the iraqi deputy prime minister fired the shot several reports say he was hit in the face with a bottle as it was pretty well given more than a week of protests which have seen so the muslims protest against what they see is second class treatment from the shia led government. u.n. secretary general ban ki moon's urged india's authorities to take action to protect women after a twenty three year old student died after being gang raped the victim's body was cremated in new delhi days of riots with protesters demanding harsher penalties for acts of violence against women six suspects are currently being held over the years so they could face the death penalty if convicted. thanks for being with us this

for me. you know it kind of after the break up to heads to russia's top ball for a taste of the country's high culture very nice to us on next program this morning . in japan the average height for men is one hundred eighty two centimeters and ten centimeters shorter because of that some employers refused to hire me one of them even told me directly that i was too short to deal with the clients computers already spent three months in this hospital and plans to stay for another four to add the coveted seven santa majors to his stature invented by the famed soviet orthopedic of really results in the nineteen fifties these frames were initially used to treat fractures in deformities by cutting bones and slowly pulling them apart therefore stimulating tissue regeneration it was out of was able to receive

arms and legs and people who thought they were crippled for life piecing together patients shattered bones and in many cases their shattered lives to go when professor who is out of design his first frame using bicycle parts sixty years later he says invention is increasingly being used to help people what eager to fracture their legs to become a few centimeters taller than the ultimate goal is still the same fixing somebody is live both literally and figuratively about a third of patients admitted to the result of center now days seeking surgery focus medical reasons most of them a man and most are not what you would call vertically challenged professor novick of who operated on many of them says it usually comes down to a man's pride some of the first patient he turned to us with a leg length in the request to meet his fifteen centimeters to be still want to

surgery because panos to than him we like to say that we need to break their. legs in order to fix their head maybe nothing wrong with them from an orthopedic point of view but there is something psychological that prevents them from living their lives fully being happy and we fix it like lengthening surgeries are banned in many countries and even the out they're pretty expensive in russia the entire course costs eleven thousand dollars about one tenth of the similar package in the united states. financial considerations were one of the reasons that brought this washington state native to western siberia his main motive for the surgery had to do with how he fared in the auditors in america advertised as one seventy five i was one sixty seven or one sixty eight in so one eight centimeters would have brought me right to every user just wanted to be average for women height isn't so important you know i think girl can be short and it's not a big deal i think

a guy is like expected to be taller just before the operation most this matter a russian girl who found he's a regional hype quite endearing yet he still want to have had the surgery adding seven more centimeters to the self-confidence she took told me the whole time you're crazy you're normal you're perfect. so now or so they call you so what a compliment for somebody who's used to falling short of his own expectations. approaching the tasha he held out his arm to grasp her waist before he had completed his invitation he asked her to waltz the tremulous expression on the touch his face prepared either for despair or rapture suddenly brightened into a happy grateful childlike smile. i have long been waiting for you that frightened

happy girl seemed to say by the smile that replaced the threatened tears as she raised her hand to prince andre shoulder. they were the second couples who went to the circle prince andre was one of the best dancers of his day i'm natasha dumped sticks was. it's the highlights of the russian bowl season i've always been invited the most first look to attend an event which they promise me is going to be the height of sophistication and delegates and it's the eighteen twelfth anniversary both.

for over a thousand years the russians have known the good party needs don't sink down the centuries rich and poor alike have learned best steps put on their costumes and set off to find love patronage simply a good time. in this suitably graham building almost two hundred people have gathered to perform the classics from the polonaise to the pool hall in front of a live orchestra. you can't help but notice the effort that's gone into their appearance and although i wasn't be only one in my dress i did feel a little out of place. though i don't see much in the way of nineteenth century play there but i do know one lady there is exactly how to get the right deal for a period. so we all look so beautiful costumes here. of

course this ball here was first dedicated to the war of eighteen twelve it wasn't so much about russia as they but it was the first such event that was held after the war a certain degree of courage was required to hold the ball at that time this stance is where it all began. me. and with several events every year they're becoming very popular even if you're not experienced you are encouraged to join in and there are plenty of helpful partners waiting to show you the ropes. movements in music have always stood the russian soul but now in the twenty first century more and more people seem to be learning these traditional cool dances that hop back to a bygone age i wanted to find out what.